Your Character's Name: [Rio]

After leaving the house of orphans we headed towards where the lady said she saw the Bandits frequently. Boy we knew that meeting the Bandits might heat up things but never expected things to get out of order! Good thing we didn’t just go run n gun towards the Bandits because shit was looking crazy when we got there. There was a woman on the roof holding what seemed like a bomb and a bunch of Bandits surrounding her. Claire, Robert, and Ian were talking about whether to help her or the Bandits, but I can tell you what, I definitely don’t want to play captain save a hoe on this one. We are outnumbered and I don't even know the woman.

The Bandits begin to maneuver and approach towards the lady and one bandit calls:

“We mean no harm. We just need to investigate the property.”

I have no idea what that girl said afterwards but I know she went crazy and threw the bomb towards the Bandits and fell into the house. A couple of Bandits dodge the motherfucker, but damn, one dude took it real good. I can’t believe that after seeing all of this that Robert, Claire, and Ian decide to go over there and see if they can help. They must be off their rabid-ass minds to ask me to go over there, that or they’re just trying to cross my wires. Me and Bordeaux tell them hell to the no and stay back.

With Robert leading they get closer to the bombing, which left a big crater in the ground and still had patches of fire lit around the area, and of course two bandits quickly confront them like two bouncers pin pointing underage kids getting in.

Robert panics and explains to the bandits:

“We are here to help!”

The bandit totally disregards the help and questions Robert:

“How did you know we were here?”

“We didn’t. We were just traveling north and happen to run into this mess. Look your guy is injured and we happen to have some first aid items we can use on him to save him.”

Robert had a point, the dude was in bad shape, skin was burned really bad and covered with dirt, I could no longer tell what skin color he was originally. Not only burned but the guy was bleeding pretty badly so the chances of him surviving without stopping the blood was slim.

They tried to patch the dude up but without medical knowledge I am sure they were making things worse. The guy began to scream as if they were doing cold surgery on him so the other bandits ordered everyone to leave him alone.

The guard is all pissed off and demanded again how did we know they were there.

Claire jumps in to change the subject:

“What has this woman done? Is she in trouble or on the run?”

The bandit looks at his other buddies and tells Claire: “We are not here for her. We are here to investigate the house.”

Claire looks like she can sense the lies and begins to get aggravated: “Why is she protecting the house then? What is in there?”

The bandit gets defensive towards the attitude: “Listen! We were ordered to find this place, talk to the woman and escort her back to our destination.”

“I thought you said you were here to investigate the house?”

The bandit stares at Claire with authority: “That’s what she thinks.”

I look over to see what Bordeaux is up to and I notice that I am the only one here. I look ahead again over by the group and I see her creeping up towards the rest. The bandits raise their weapons and one of the bandits’ calls:

“Who’s there?”

“Sorry! It’s me guys, I am with them.” She points towards the group in which all of them look like they saw a ghost. That girl is outrageous! She is so lucky none of those bandits are trigger happy.

“How many more of you are there?”

Damn! I guess this time for me to come out. I have the feeling these guys are getting tired of us and are beginning to forget about the possibility of letting us go. Well let’s see if I can turn this vibe around. I walk towards everyone and as I get closer I begin to smell the stench of burned skin and hair. No wonder why the bandits are in such a bad mood, one of their guys is down and they have been sticking around this smell trying to figure us out. Well it is what it is let’s see what’s up.

“Wassup fellas! Sorry bout hanging back like that you never know if anyone could get a little trigger happy out there you feel me? Anyways now that I know you guys are from the Bandits of the Hood there is nothing to worry about. Word is you guys are always helping the hard working brother out there, you guys don’t happen to have anything to trade?”

Big guy comes up to me:

“Listen. We bandits travel light, we only bring what is necessary and we definitely never bring something we are willing to trade to any traveler like you.”

“All right, all right no need to worry about it. How about if you just let us search the house. I know I said I wanted to lose weight but damn I still need to get me some munchies or something.”

“Absolutely not! Why are you guys here again?”

Robert had been sweating nuts this whole conversation and after my “great plan” of looting the house he was officially pissed off that we haven’t left already. He walks up to the bandits:

“ We really mean no trouble. We just want to know who is responsible of the bombing in New Bottsford. We know who was accused but we really want to know who is responsible.”

The leader of the bandits looks at his crew and then turns to us:

“You are not the only ones looking for that information. Look we are behind schedule and we need to get back but one piece of advice. Avoid asking anyone else about the bombing because it will get you into trouble.”

Robert nods and looks at us:

“Let’s go NOW!”

I swear dude needs to take a chill pill. We continue to head north and hopefully we can be smarter next time and stay away from other people’s problems.